CLIFTON HEIGHTS — A mail carrier who worked at the post office on South Springfield Road allegedly was stealing cash and gift cards from customers on her route.

Amina Imo Medley, 20, was arrested Friday after an investigator from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General reportedly caught her red-handed with the loot, according to the affidavit of probable cause written by borough police Sgt. Stephen Brown.

Brown was contacted Thursday by Special Agent Angela Foltz who had conducted the postal service’s investigation into theft from the mail by a carrier in the northwest section of the borough, according to the affidavit.

Foltz told police that she had mailed three letters from a U.S. Postal Service collection box at 281 Davis Avenue, three letters at another blue collection box at 217 Oak Avenue and one letter that contained $200 in marked cash at a collection box at 105 Harrison Avenue, according to the affidavit. The envelope with the cash contained an electronic surveillance device, the affidavit states.

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The special agent watched as Medley collected mail at the Harrison Avenue box and allegedly opened the letter with the marked cash as signaled by the electronic surveillance device, according to reports

Foltz approached Medley’s postal vehicle and reportedly saw the $200 in cash and the opened letter inside a postal tub. She recovered those items along with 14 other opened letters from Medley’s mail satchel and the tub in the postal vehicle. None of the items were addressed to Medley, police reports said.

Medley was transported to the borough police station, where she was interviewed by Brown and Foltz. She allegedly admitted to opening 15 letters and removing cash and a gift card totaling $320 that same day.

A consent search of Medley’s personal vehicle was conducted. Another 14 gift cards of unknown value were recovered, the affidavit states. Medley allegedly admitted to taking them from the mail.

Medley, a resident of the 200 block of Davis Avenue, Clifton Heights, was arraigned on 15 counts of theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception and access device fraud.

She was released on 10 percent of $10,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing.

In November, another mail carrier from the Clifton Heights Post Office was sentenced to one year of probation in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for stealing from the mail. John Paschal Iacono, of Secane, also was ordered repay $340 to six victims from whom he stole mailed items.

Iacono was arrested in May after Foltz conducted a similar investigation, planting two letters in a mailbox at the at the Lansdowne Towers Apartments. Those envelopes also contained marked bills and electronic devices that signaled when the letter had been opened.